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Valeriia Hesse
Winning the Game of Chicken With Memes: Ukrainian Reactions to Russian Threats
Ali Alkis
Non-Western approach to nuclear security (2023) Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences
Ali Alkis
Türkiye in the New World Order: The Nuclear Debate (2023) Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Ali Alkis
Armed Conflict and Nuclear Security: Implications for Europe (2023) EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium
Margarita Kalinina-Pohl
Black Sea Women in Nuclear Network Celebrated Women’s History Month with a Panel on Women’s Leadership
Polina Sinovets, Khrystyna Holynska and John V. Parachini
Russia’s Disinformation Goes Nuclear
Ali Alkis, Valeriia Gergiieva
Why Russia May Control Turkey’s Nuclear Energy for the Next 80 Years, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2023
Margarita Kalinina-Pohl, Artem Lazarev, Miles Pomper, George Moore, and Edward Kendall
Radiological Security in Contested Territories
Jānis Bērziņš, Mark Galeotti, Tracey German, Marc Ozawa, Polina Sinovets
War changes everything: Russia after Ukraine, NATO Defense College Research Paper
Polina Sinovets, Aderito Vicente
Are nuclear weapons ineffective in deterring non-nuclear weapon states? The paradox of Russia’s war on Ukraine, FRS
Tatyana Novossiolova, Goran Georgiev
Countering Hybrid Threats in Bulgaria Enhancing Policy, Regulatory, and Institutional Resilience in Support of Weapons of Mass Destruction Nonproliferation
Tatyana Novossiolova, Goran Georgiev
Disinformation in the Kremlin’s Toolkit of Influence Training Guidance for Scoping the Threat to the Norms and Institutions of Weapons of Mass Destruction Nonproliferation
Margarita Kalinina-Pohl
CNS Celebrates a Successful First Year of the Black Sea Women in Nuclear Network
Ali Alkis
Nuclear Security During Armed Conflict (2022) Stimson Center
Ali Alkis
Nuclear Security and Nuclear Security Culture: An Overview (2022) Journal of Nuclear Sciences
Valeriia Hesse
A Ukrainian expert assesses the possible impact of a military attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Ali Alkis
Youth, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Recommendations from Early-Career Experts to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT/CONF.2020/WP.74)
Valeriia Hesse
UN must condemn Russia’s nuclear threat at non-proliferation conference
Polina Sinovets, John Parachini, Khrystyna Holynska
How Russia’s nuclear double cross of Ukraine teaches dangerous lessons, Breaking Defense
Polina Sinovets
The growing role of the nuclear factor in interstate politics: The case of Russia’s war against Ukraine, EUNPDC Policy Paper
Iryna Maksymenko
Security assurances: Current challenges and implications for the future. EUNPD Policy Paper
Ali Alkis
Threat of Nuclear Terrorism: The Developing Nuclear Security Regime (2022) International Journal of Nuclear Security
Sebnem Udum
Structural Causes of the “Gender Gap” in Nuclear Security: An Overview, International Journal of Nuclear Security, Women in Nuclear Security Special Issue
Polina Sinovets
How the “Escalation Strategy” Evolved in Russia’s Security Policy, PONARS Policy Memo
Valeriia Gergiieva, Dana Levinson
Strategic Culture Fenomena in Iran-Israel Relations
Iryna Maksymenko
The Russian roulette: the Kremlin’s escalation strategy in the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review (in co-authorship with P. Sinovets and M. Skrypnyk)
Valeriia Hesse
Accelerating Safeguards Innovations
Polina Sinovets
Between the Rock and the Hard Place: will the Black Sea Avoid the Escalation Ladder?, IES Policy Papers
Sebnem Udum
INSEN As Part and Propellant of Nuclear Security Regime: An Insider’s View, International Journal of Nuclear Security
Sebnem Udum
The INSEN Experience, by INSEN Chairs, International Journal of Nuclear Security
Sebnem Udum, Peter Lang
Issues in Turkish-US Relations: A Politico-Psychological Analysis Through Problematic Cases, in Hüseyin Işıksal and Ozan Örmeci eds., Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations
Valeriia Gergiieva
North Korea’s Nuclear Program: From Nonproliferation Issue to Deterrence
Polina Sinovets, Valeriia Gergiieva
Evolution of US Policy Toward Iran’s Nuclear Program in XXI Century: From President Bush to President Trump
Polina Sinovets
Hot off the Press, Colder in Scope: Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Fundamentals 2020, PONAR Eurasia Commentary
Valeriia Hesse
1540 Impact: Substantive Normative Changes after 2004?
Valeriia Hesse
Export Control Instruments: Duplication of Effort
Valeriia Hesse
Undergirding the IAEA: How Regional Safeguards Agreements Can Take the Pressure Off
Valeriia Gergiieva
Marriage for Oil Convenience: The United States and Saudi Arabia’s Case Study
Valeriia Hesse
“Atoms for Peace” without Atoms: Why Non-Nuclear States Join the IAEA
Valeriia Hesse
INF: The Path Forward
Polina Sinovets
Escalation for De-Escalation? Hazy Nuclear-Weapon “Red Lines” Generate Russian Advantages, PONAR Policy Memo
Valeriia Hesse
Nuclear Security Culture for Users of Radioactive Sources: Model, Self-assessment, Enhancement
Nino Gvrishvili, Lia Chelidze
Some Remarks on the Newly Established Rules on Radioactive Waste Management in Georgia: International Requirements and National Implementation
Valeriia Hesse
The CTBT: Possible Subsequent Domino Effect Of The U. S. Ratification In The Context Of The Global Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Sebnem Udum
The Role of Turkey in the 2015 NPT Review Conference, EDAM Discussion Paper
Valeriia Hesse
Nuclear Programs of India Pakistan: “The Domino Effect” or the Transformation of Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime?